Eric Hansen, who was 23 at the time, was arrested in May 2006 after he arranged to meet someone he thought was a 15-year-old girl at the Wal-Mart in Cedar Falls. The girl turned out to be a Cedar Falls police officer.

Hansen was convicted of enticement, but he convinced the Iowa Court of Appeals in August 2007 to reduce his conviction to attempted enticement because there was no underage victim.